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pay her late husband's debts, of the towns of Roxby and Newton, late the said Henry's and forfeited to the King, on account of his rebellion, to hold to the value of £20 yearly, and there was granted to her also all his goods, likewise forfeited, to the value of £20, and she must answer for any surplus.

Sir Henry married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Conyers, of Sockburne, in the Bishopric of Durham; she afterwards became the wife of John Felton. Sir Henry had issue by her six children.

  1. Thomas (X).
  2. William (XI).
  3. Henry.
  4. Elizabeth, married to Thomas Marton, of Marton-in-Cleveland.
  5. Jennett, married to John Wydysforth.
  6. Another child.

(X)THOMAS BOYNTON [1393-1424], son and heir of Sir Henry (IX),[1] aged 12 in 1405, married Margaret, daughter of Peter Mirfield, and died without issue.[2]

(XI)WILLIAM BOYNTON [about 1400-], was heir to his brother Thomas (X). He presented a petition to the King that two messuages, three cottages and sixteen bovates of land in Boynton which his father Henry had assigned to his brother's wife, Margaret, in dower, might be restored to him. This property had been forfeited through Henry Boynton's revolt against King Henry IV, and was still in the King's hands. William petitions for the restoration of the manor of Roxby and the moiety of the manor of Newton-under-Osenburgh, and of a messuage, a cottage, five bovates and forty acres of land in Snainton, Co. York. All this
  1. Ing. p. m. 3 Hy. VI., n. 40.
  2. Cal. Pat. Rolls, 3 Hy. VI. memb. 13d., p. 301.